PRIME TIME COMMUNICATIONS

If someone forced me to give a one word answer to the question, What is NLP? Or if a visitor from Mars came to earth and aim a ray-gun at me and said, What is Neuro-Semantic NLP in one word? I would say, “Communication.”

Communication is the short answer because NLP at its core is a Communication Model developed from the language patterns of three world-class communicators (Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson) which used a communication model (Transformational Grammar, Noam Chomsky, John Grinder) to identify the communication patterns that Richard Bandler happened upon while listening to audio-tapes.

Communication led me to discover NLP in the first place. I was developing and delivering some Communication Workshops in 1986 when I came upon one of the key communication guidelines of NLP in a book: “The meaning of your communication is the response you get.” That summarized in a provocatively succinct statement a whole new paradigm of communication for me.

Just look at that statement and notice all that it brings together in such a short phrase: “The meaning of your communication is the response you get.”

Meaning: references, frames, evaluations, understandings, beliefs — all that’s in your mind that you want to transfer to another person. Communication: what you are saying explicitly and implicitly, what you are communicating non-verbally in tone, gesture, movement, context, etc. Response: what the other person interprets your words and non-verbal expressions and then responds from the meanings it generates in him or her. Response indicates meaning: in other words, you never know what you’ve communicated, only what you said or did, not the interpretation the other makes of it.

Wow! Talk about a rich and robust premise of communication and that’s just one of them. Ready for more? Now for what may be a surprise to you— That’s what Meta-Coaching is all about. After all, what is Coaching? If an alien from Jupiter pointed a lazer-wand at me threatening to vaperize me if I didn’t give a one word answer to that question, I would say, Conversation. “Okay, continue Earthling.”

It is a fierce conversation that gets to the heart of things (meanings, and meanings of meanings) with a client and that results in one of seven different kinds of conversations that can be life-changing and life-affirming.

And that’s why we have focused the three modules of Meta-Coaching on the essence of communication using the NLP model, the Meta-States model, and then five models of Neuro- Semantics (Matrix, Facilitation, Axes of Change, Self-Actualization Quadrants, Benchmarking). And we have put these in three modules so that a person can learn how to be a professional communicator: I: Coaching Essentials. The essentials of the NLP Model for prime-time communicating: pacing for rapport, languages of the mind, state-to-state communicating, Meta-Model of language, Meta-Programs, and much more.

II: Coaching Genius. The 14 coaching patterns of APG to enable you to lead yourself and bring out your very best so that you can turn off and on “being in the zone” at will.

III: Coaching Mastery. The coaching boot camp of 8 days wherein you practice using and integrating all of the communication models into explorative and transformative conversations and being benchmarked for your level of competency.

While we have already been launching many workshop of Modules I and II, very soon here in 2012 we will be launching this most intensive training in communication skills as the coaching boot camp occurs in many parts of the world — Hong Kong, Mexico, Europe, Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa, and China. Obviously, if you are interested in a profession as a Coach or already are a Coach and want to take your skills to the next level, this is custom-made for you. But what if you are not a Coach? Then this same training results in another certificate:

Professional Communicator Certificate

Meta-Coaching New for 2012 In 2012 Modules I and II will be conduct in many, many places around the world by Neuro- Semantic Trainers (see www.neurosemantics.com / Training). Module III will be conducted in 7 places (www.meta-coaching.org).

1) May (May 14-21): Hong Kong May 13 Team Leaders Mandy Chai [email protected]

2) May (24-27) & June (21-24): Mexico City (Parts I and II) Omar Salom [email protected] David Murphy [email protected]

3) August (25—Sept. 1): Belgium. First Ever in Europe Germaine Rediger – [email protected] Mario Mason --- [email protected]

4) September (15-22): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro – First ever in Brazil

Jairo Mancilha [email protected]

5) October (5-12): New Zealand Lene Gray --- [email protected] Colin Cox --- [email protected]

6) Nov. (17-21) & Dec. (6-10): Guangzhou, China (Parts I and II) Mandy Chai: [email protected] Nov. 16 and Dec. 2 – Team leaders

7) November (23-30): Pretoria — South Africa Cheryl Lucas --- [email protected] Carey Jooste --- [email protected]